Posts by George Guimarães

When people talk about mirroring a git repository, usually we have a simple answer in mind: Just git clone the repo and you’re set!! However, what we want with mirroring is to replicate the state of an origin repository (or upstream repository). By state, we mean all the branches (including master) and all the tags … »

Since moving to Mac, I always find it surprising that the default Mac OS X Ruby and IRB doesn’t allow inputs with accented characters. So, you cannot do name = “George Guimarães” This is annoying for brazilians and anyone who uses non-ASCII characters. The problem is that the default Ruby in Mac OS X isn’t … »

Sometimes users want to slice and dice data as they wish. In such scenarios, it’s usual to export the data in a tabular format so your users can use any spreadsheet editor and do whatever they want. Usually, we do that using CSV, right? OpenOffice and other editors can open CSV files flawlessly. Just double-click … »